2021 Express Grants Program - NH Charitable Foundation
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2021 Express Grants Program
Capital Region
To support the Chorale as it rebuilds from the COVID epidemic and
Concord Chorale $9,300
returns to live rehearsal and performance
To increase geographical reach, support faculty with increased
Concord Community Music School enrollment, and build upon new remote teaching expertise, by $10,000
creating eight mobile music technology teaching carts
To hire a planning consultant to facilitate creation of an organizational
NH News Views and Blues $10,000
strategic plan
To provide scholarships for students of the New American Driving
Second Start School serving refugees and other New Americans in the greater $7,329
Concord region
Woman's Club of Concord New To update the internet and cable access at the WCC Chamberlin
$1,610
Hampshire House
Total for Capital Region: $38,239Lakes Region
Belknap County Conservation
Strategic plan revision for Belknap County Conservation District $7,450
District
To fund a public arts initiative that will improve community resilience
Governor Wentworth Arts Council post-pandemic and to strengthen collaboration between residents and $7,500
local cultural organizations
Kidworks Learning Center To make necessary safety and health improvements to the center $9,000
To help pay facility fees for indoor tennis instruction during the winter
Teen Master Tennis Academy months $4,000
To purchase technology infrastructure that will streamline operational
The Wright Museum of World War
effectiveness/efficiencies and improve external and internal $8,250
II
communications
Tilton-Northfield Recreation Tilton-Northfield Recreation Council's Youth Program Assistance Fund $5,000
Council
Provide new hire employees an extensive dental training curriculum
Tri-County Community Action and replace badly worn or broken equipment and PPE due to increased $10,000
Programs volume created by the pandemic
Total for Lakes Region: $51,200Manchester Region
Animal Rescue League of New To fund a series of large metal multi-animal art sculpture on route 101 $10,000
Hampshire in an educational collaboration
To help increase the health, wellbeing, productivity, and independence
Community Crossroads $10,000
for people who experience developmental and other disabilities so they
can live full meaningful lives in the community
To purchase and install permanent StoryWalk® pedestals on the $10,000
Hampstead Public Library grounds of the Hampstead Library
To support LNA for Success, which will prepare primarily low-income $10,000
International Institute of New
southern New Hampshire immigrants with job training and placement
England services for family-sustaining careers as Licensed Nursing Assistants
Fund the newly named Queen City Youth Choir in Manchester, NH for $10,000
Manchester Choral Society
one year in a pilot program
Manchester Community To support MCAC in implementing and growing their Virtual $10,000
Action Coalition Community Service Tutor (VCST) program for the 21/22 school year
Manchester Police Athletic To support the Manchester Police Athletic League's Juvenile Court $10,000
League, Inc. Diversion Program
Nackey S. Loeb School of $5,000
To fund a first-ever strategic plan
Communications
To build an Outdoor Recreation Area & Shade Pavilion on the grounds $10,000
Pelham New Hampshire
of Hobbs Community Center, doubling service capacity by providing
Council On Aging Corp
seniors safe outdoor access
Victory Women of Vision To reengage our youth and help them envision a successful future $10,000
Total for Manchester Region: $95,000Monadnock Region
To create a business accelerator program for food-based
Hannah Grimes Center $10,000
businesses in our region
To provide professional arts-in-education training to NHDI teaching $10,000
artists and musicians to help create a more inclusive and
New Hampshire Dance Institute
supportive learning environment for students of all abilities and
backgrounds
Rise for Baby and Family To improve organizational and governance capacity of Rise $10,000
Washington NH Historical Society For communication and website development $5,000
Total for Monadnock Region: $35,000
Nashua Region
To assess operations and provide strategic recommendations on
Healthy at Home $10,000
organizational operations to achieve maximum impact
This grant will be used to continue to pivot programs for seniors
Nashua Association for the Elderly $10,000
based on ongoing pandemic challenges
To improve and upgrade security system for physical safety or
Nashua Adult Learning Center $9,638
health of the students and staff
ReGenerative Roots Association Expansion of ReGen Roots Community Farmers Program $6,000
Stepping Stones To assess, develop and implement fundraising strategies $10,000
Total for Nashua Region: $45,638North Country Region
Support the Arts in Motion Theater Company's "Outside, Inside"
AIM project $7,500
Bartlett Historical Society To purchase an ADA ramp for our Bartlett History Museum building $6,768
Believe in Books Literacy Foundation To gift new books to families in Coos, Carroll, and Grafton Counties $10,000
To provide door to door transportation for guests to attend the MWV
Betty C Ketchum Foundation $10,000
Adult Day Center
Expand our current service area to include Colebrook where there
Caleb Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers are currently very limited services $10,000
Great North Woods Center for the To complete insulation of first floor theater room before the 2021-
22 winter season $10,000
Arts
To support the Laura Foundation's 3-part Summer Program with
Laura Mahoney Autism and Epilepsy
social-skills training, adaptive PE, and specials (equine assisted $4,935
Foundation
activities, adaptive biking, and climbing wall)
Little Angels Service Dogs To support our service dogs in training community foster program $4,925
Secure a secondary grooming system to extend the life of our
Nansen Ski Club $10,000
primary grooming asset and stabilize core services
Feasibility analysis, partner recruitment, and framework for
New Hampshire Alliance for End of
community-based pilot project on advance care and end of life $7,500
Life Options planning
"Infrastructure Bills" - Upgrade computer systems/ticketing to
accommodate better service of patrons and use by volunteers; and
North Country Center for the Arts $8,500
additional necessary enhancements unplanned for returning to
'normal.'
To pilot a Basecamp Adventure program in the White Mountains for
On Belay youth ages 11-13 who have been impacted by a family member’s $3,750
cancer diagnosis
To improve access to Union Hall by installing a stairlift to the
Union Hall Association second floor and renovating the restroom to meet ADA $7,179
specificationsFor the provision of technology for victims and survivors in the
Voices Against Violence $5,100
rural area of Grafton County, NH
To further develop strategic plan with a specific focus on
Way Station $10,000
establishing a supported housing program in the region
Total for North Country Region: $116,157
Piscataqua Region
Chase Home for Children To improve and expand the use of the third floor at Chase Home $9,700
Dover Children's Home To renovate three lounges to create an inclusive space for the kids $10,000
To enhance an existing accessible garden area at the Great Bay $5,740
Great Bay Stewards Discovery Center, creating an interactive sculpture, a sensory
garden, and handicap-accessible play structures
Homeless Center for Strafford To purchase hard goods for new shelter building $9,821
County
To provide computing power to offer advanced computer science
Loislab $10,000
courses to all high school students
Develop an updated strategic plan to guide future work of the Port
Port City Makerspace $5,000
City Makerspace
Racial Unity Team To compensate artists, ambassadors, arts director, and project $8,000
coordinator who will mentor youth voices
Rockingham County Conservation To complete boundary research and official surveys on priority
$10,000
District easement sites with missing documentation
To hire a consultant to assist in establishing a Diversity, Equity, and
Seacoast Mental Health Center $10,000
Inclusion Committee at Seacoast Mental Health Center
Seymour Osman Community Center
To support summer learning opportunities for low-income youth $10,000
& Youth Safe Haven
Strafford County Conservation Provide small-scale rental equipment to small and new farms for
$5,000
District soil, water, and wildlife conservation
Workforce Housing Coalition of the
To support the creation of a Housing Week in NH $5,000
Greater Seacoast
Total for Piscataqua Region: $98,261Upper Valley Region
Camerata New England To support music education partnership for children in Lebanon $5,000
Center for the Arts Lake Sunapee To support the Sunapee Region Arts Atlas to further the area's
$5,000
Region cultural and economic development plans
Child Care Center in Norwich To support RealFood4Kids $10,000
City of Claremont, NH To support Project Red & Blue $3,000
To implement innovative recruitment and training programs to
Early Care and Education Association create early childhood education career pathway in Upper Valley $10,000
To create and install educational & interpretive signage on Tucker
Friends Of Tucker Mountain Inc Mountain Town Forest, increasing trail accessibility $10,000
Hanover Conservancy To support capital campaign planning and community outreach $10,000
To support a strategic and short-term staff recruitment campaign
Lake Sunapee Region VNA & Hospice to help fill critical care positions $9,000
To support development of an open-air programming venue as
Library Arts Center well as a hybrid infrastructure for arts education classes $5,000
To support the development of a multi-generational outdoor
Olive G. Pettis Library $10,000
gathering and recreation space
To support creation of a video series to accompany the launch of
Opera North $5,000
Opera North's 40th anniversary fundraising campaign
To support production of a free outdoors presentation of "The
Revels North $5,000
Christmas Revels" in downtown Lebanon in December 2021
Richards Free Library To help update and rejuvenate the library's youth Non-Fiction area $6,000
To support development and implementation of hybrid
Spark! Community Center $10,000
programming for a tiered re-opening plan
To support development of an Architectural Services Plan to help
Sunapee Heritage Alliance $7,500
complete the transformation of the historic Livery
Sustainable Woodstock To expand Community Garden Projects & Plots $4,200
The Upper Valley Humane Society Training for Board of Directors, and strategic plan development $6,000
Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional
To support planning initiative $9,746
Planning Commission
Total for Upper Valley Region: $130,446Statewide
350NH 350NH Organizational Racial Justice and Equity Plan $10,000
Casting for Recovery will provide therapeutic fly fishing weekend
Casting for Recovery retreats for women in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine who $6,000
have been diagnosed with breast cancer
Harry Alan Gregg To provide up to twenty low income NH residents with disabilities
Foundation with computers or adaptive software technologies $10,000
To support four free on-demand virtual webinars and resources
Home Care Hospice & Palliative Care
for home care and hospice staff to meet NH's quarterly dementia $9,732
Alliance of New Hampshire
training requirements
Acquire/enhance technology necessary to complete the merger of
Legal Advice and Referral Center the Pro Bono Program of the NH Bar into the Legal Advice & $10,000
Referral Center
New Hampshire Association for the Strategic Planning $10,000
Blind
For training program expenses for 20-24 high school seniors to
Safe Schools New Hampshire lead school safety programs $9,000
Society for the Protection of New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training $2,400
Hampshire Forests
UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian To support equine-assisted activities and therapies for frontline
workers and first responders $10,000
Center, Inc.
Total for Statewide: $77,132You can also read
